This webzine is online since August 2010 and is completely dedicated to Electronic Music (EM) identified as the Berlin School style and its derived. You will find interviews but mostly reviews of ambient, sequenced and symphonic EM with a glimpse on other related genres. You have questions or want your music to be reviewed? Please read the 123 FAQ section attentively. Bear in mind the main purpose of this Blog. So welcome in and I hope it will guide you into the wonderful world of EM.

mardi 11 juillet 2017

“EVIL 17NL is like a Best Of...the most dance Moonbooter's tracks which have this tight link with the New Berlin School style”

1 Nachtvogel 2:40 2 Satellite 6:07 3 Time 6:08 4 The Wave 4:595 The Raven´s Light 7:08 6 Last Exit Eternity 6:09 7 Daft Moon 5:07 8 Earth Two 6:42 9 Edge of Sanity 7:51 10 Apeland 6:04 11 Sequencer 9 5:47 12 Like Angels 6:17MellowJet-Records | cdr-mb1702 (CD/DDL 71:14) ****(Electronic Dance Music mixed with New Berlin School)Prince of Electronic Dance Music, Bernd Scholl possesses an impressive discography. The one who set up the label MellowJet Records in 2007 produced more than about twenty albums since Teralogica in 2005. Plus, he realized albums in collaboration, he produced music events, DJ evenings, made a couple of DVD and he did the master of many albums. You have there an impressive career and discography of albums which allies marvelously the approach of Dance to New Berlin School or still to the French School (Jarre among others) from the 70's and 80's. “EVIL 17NL”, for Netherlands Live 2017, is an album in concert performed on April 29th 2017 within the framework of the prestigious E-Day Festival in Oirschot, Netherlands. Bernd Scholl locked himself in his studio and edited the 72 minutes of this concert, removing the noises of the crowd, to do the mixing a mosaic of Dance Music which goes softly like an appealing journey into the lands New Berlin School Dance as in the style of Morphing Dance Music or yet in EDM.It's the lively rhythm and the very TD synths of "Satellite" that follows the ambient "Nachtvogel" and its good effects of percussions. Moonbooter guesses that the ambiences there are more convenient to the Berlin School style, the Festival also welcomes Pyramaxx and Arcane, because he selected titles of Dance Music which are in direct link with the Berliner style. Certainly there are some big “boom-boom-tchick-tchick”, like the wild and ferocious "Daft Moon" and "Like Angels", but the rest of the selections of Bernd Scholl rests on a great Dance Music with good harmonious effects which is rather unique to his signature. "The Wave" is as much lively and catchy with its harmonious solos while titles like "Time", "Last Exit Eternity" and "Edge of Sanity" share their sweetness and mi-ambient/mi-dance rhythms. I like the interpretation of "The Raven´s Light", from Schwarzmond, which seems to me more incisive here, as well as "Sequencer 9", an old title of 2008 (Lunatic Voyage album) which sets the table in a very brilliant way to the finale with "Like Angels". It's been a while since I heard "Apeland" and I remember how much I liked its heavy and slow rhythm. Very good! And what to say about "Earth Two"? I repeat myself again and again by saying that it's there that Jarre should have go!In brief, I had a good time with “EVIL 17NL”, a lively and catchy album which isn't really so much of a Dance Music album. To say the least, not that this much to frighten those whom the kind annoys. It's a very beautiful album of EDM where, as usual, Moonbooter is second to none to make this link between Berlin School and the lively and catchy beats of EM.Sylvain Lupari (July 10th, 2017)synth&sequences.comYou will find this album on the MellowJet Records shophere

Members of this Blog

Qui suis-je

Bonjour!
My name is Sylvain Lupari from Joliette in Quebec (Canada). I’m known as Phaedream all over the Internet since the beginning of 2000 where I started to write reviews. In 2005, I joined the French Webzine Guts of Darkness and on August 2010 I created a Blog, Synth & Sequences, which has reached the point of 1 000,000 visitors on February 2017 where I also wrote my 1354th review. In French and in English, I wrote more than reviews of EM albums.
This Blog is a huge success and reference about the music which sets my mind free over the years. Too many chronicles, so I have to split this Blog in several sections. Robert Schroeder is the first to welcome my thoughts on Webpress.
So, welcome to this part of my Blog Synth&Sequences which is devoted to the music, the tones and sounds of Aachen’s own Robert Schroeder.
Here you will find informations about his career and discography and latest news as well as deep reviews about his music, his albums.
My only wish is to guide you through his impressive career and may I suggest to visit regularly my Blog Synth & Sequences for more updates on EM.